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One Quotes by Jon Meacham
- In the closed circle of the war cabinet, pounded by terrible report after terrible report, there had been uncertainty about whether he could fend off…
- One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to Bush and the…
- The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous…
- An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free…
- If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin…
- In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight…
- One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those…
- The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the…
- In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.
- The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
- World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
- If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens…
- From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I…
- I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were…
- I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of them, and I…
- It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the…
- One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse…
- Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in…
- Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded…
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle